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00:00You were seen as a sleepy little town, and that's most assuredly not the case.
00:07The most complicated thing in the world is our reaction to the shootings.
00:14You nervous? Yeah.
00:18We are taking Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and turning it into a pop musical.
00:23It's a great way to bring the community together.
00:28It's the first play I've ever done.
00:31It's an opportunity for the kids to have an expressive way of putting their feelings out.
00:37Be a little crazy. Try something you've never tried before.
00:39To get to callbacks, I'm really happy with myself.
00:42Some kids have trouble auditioning. They just stand there like this.
00:48I don't think a play or anything could repair the damage.
00:52There is no sense to be made of what happened to our daughter.
00:56My pain did not allow me to see that Jimmy's creative process through music was his fight.
01:03The music I've been writing is a bit of who I am, but mostly about who Anna was and continues to be in our hearts.
01:11I'm about to watch him walk out on a tightrope, and I don't know what's going to happen.
01:16He's not nervous, but it's like I am.
01:18It makes me very happy that the children in Newtown can show such resilience, finding their creativity.
01:29We're there to give these kids an environment where they can trust everything around them.
01:36How can we reflect love and beauty through all the trauma and the horror that we've been through?
01:43Something like a show, it seems very silly.
01:45But to me, seeing him up on stage gave me the feeling like, yeah, he is going to be okay.